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Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer

Friday, January 25, 2013

The Flatiron Building (or Fuller Building, as it was originally
called) is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in
the borough of Manhattan, New York City and is
considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it
was one of the tallest buildings in the city and one of only two skyscrapers
north of 14th Street – the other being the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building sits on a triangular
island-block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway and East 22nd
Street, with 23rd Street grazing the triangle's northern (uptown)
peak. As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name
"Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes
iron.

The
building anchors the south (downtown) end of Madison Square and the
north (uptown) end of the Ladies' Mile Historic District. The neighborhood
around it is called the Flatiron District after its signature
building, which has become an icon of New York City. The building was
designated a New York City landmark in 1966,was
added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and
designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

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